My Guide To Nutrition

Berries are very good for your health and you probably heard about that you always dreamed of picking fresh berries from the garden i think how tasty fresh picked berries can be berries are always naturally sweet all you have to do is rinse your berries in water and your ready to give it a taste.

You can serve berries in many ways you can serve is as dinner break fast and even on top of your break fast cereals, one cup of strawbrerries contain 100 mg of vitamin C which is very benefitcal for you strawberries also have a bit of calium with pottasium and magnesium and with only 53 calories.

With one cup of blueberries you will not get lesser with Vitamin C with minerals and phytochemicals and they are only 83 calories the same thing goes for cranberries but with only 43 calories with raspberries 1 cup offers vitamin C with other minerals for 64 minerals.

There are many health benefits which come from eating blueberries and there are strong between berries and prevention of cancer studies had shown that blueberries and cranberries contain a substance which may help in preventing bladder infections a diet rich of different type of berries will help in reducing the risk of different types of cancer berries such as blueberries and cranberries contain lutein which is great for a good healthy vision.

Choosing berries can be easy just remember to choose berries that are free from signs of mushy and mild spots you can have frozen berries but they are not as the fresh but they can still be good for you if you can get your hands on fresh berries that are picked from the garden recently it will be great and it will taste good try farmer markets they offer berries harvested the same day.

Different berries have different health benefits as i said berries are tasty to be served as they are but you may add even more taste by trying the ideas below:

• Add small pieces of blueberries to your salad.
• Add strawberry slices to your breakfast cereal.
• Stir fresh raspberries in vanilla yogurt.

You can use one of these ways or even try other ideas of serving a great tasty cup of berries my favorite way is to add strawberry slices in my muesli bowl in the morning muesli is rich in other type of fruits and fibers and if you add strawberry slices it will be even better.

Filed under: Healthy Snacks on September 10th, 2008